Fishing line float



Aug. 2, 1938. H. HAAG 2,125 7 FISHING LINE FLOAT Filed Jan. 15 1936 W 2 2 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

Patented Aug. 2, 1938 UNITED STATES OFFICE 4 Claims.

This invention relates to devices such as fishing line floats.

One object of the invention is to provide a device of the character described which shall have improved means free of any movable parts and adapted nevertheless for the simple and reliable securement by means of adjustable or slidable slip loops of the float to the fishing line, and without forming kinks or other bends that tend to deform and mar the usefulness of relatively expensive fishing lines.

A related object of the invention is the provision of a float of the class mentioned wherein the rigid means referred to affords the additional advantages of permitting such means to be cast or molded as a one piece structure of rugged, durable character, while the improved arrangement used not only facilitates the accomplishment of the molding operation in a simple manner but renders particularly convenient the rapid slip loop engagement of the fishing line with the improved securing means of the float.

Another object of the invention is the provision of such improved float which is relatively symmetrically constructed and balanced and which shall not accidentally catch or cause tangling of the fishing line at the securing means alluded to, and wherein the float can be readily slid along the fishing line and quickly detached therefrom Without any particular care or .skill, as occasion may require.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

With the aforesaid objects in view, the invention consists in the novel combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described in their preferred embodiments, pointed out in the subjoined claims, and illustrated in the annexed drawing, wherein like parts are designated by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view in vertical elevation showing a device embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a similar view thereof but taken at a different angle, and showing one of the slip loops in course of being attached.

Fig. 3 is a view of the securing means with the fishing line removed. V

Fig. 4 is a similar view but showing a different view of the slip loop.

The advantages of the invention as here outlined are best realized when all of its features and instrumentalities are combined in one and the same structure, but, useful devices may be produced embodying less than the whole.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the 1 invention appertains, that the same may bewincorporatedin severalidifierent constructions. The. accompanyingia'drawing, therefore,sis:.submitted merely as showing the preferred exemplification-of the invention.

'Referring indetail to thefldrawing, the invention provides a fishing line float l0 having a float body I l of spheroidal, oval'or other suitable form, desirably made of Celluloid or other plastic composition. Disposed along an axis of the float body, for instance, on the long axis of an ovoid form are projecting securing means l2 for the engagement with the fishing line 13. For example, said means I2 may each include a stem M integrally formed with the float body I I or suitably connected thereto, each stem l4 having mounted therealong an eye portion l5 and a projecting portion I6 spaced from the former so as not to obstruct the eye opening I! and interfere with the passing of fishing line loops l8 through the eyes I1. While the projecting portion l6 may extend directly from the eye portion I5 or directly from the stem l4, and in different angular relations to the eye portion I5, I prefer to utilize the specific arrangement herein shown. The same includes the eye portions I5 lying along a plane determined by the axial stems I4 and intermediate the ends of each stem to thus provide a symmetrical arrangement to permit the line loops Hi to be conveniently passed into the eye holes I! at either side of the said plane. This symmetrical relationship is maintained by the free end portions l6 of the stems M which afford stud or anchor elements that project axially outward beyond the eye portions I 5 and desirably terminate in retaining heads l9.

According to the invention, the fishing line I3 is formed with the spaced open loops or folds 20 as shown in Fig. 2 which are passed through the eyes I1, and then passed over the anchor elements It at the inner side of the heads Hi there-- of, to thus provide the securing slip loops l8 which cannot accidentally pull through the eyes, and which frictionally reliably cause the float to be secured in the required relation to the line. The part of the latter intermediate of the slip loops extends snugly along a side of the float as shown.

It will be noted that in the use of the invention, no manipulation of movable or bendable parts on the float is required, the structure being rigid throughout and thus lending itself at once to rugged and compact arrangements which can be cheaply molded or cast complete. A related advantage is that the fishing line may be attached at whichever side happens to present itself while the float is being held in the hand of the operator. Another advantage is that pinching, clamping, knotting with resultant sharp bends or kinks which tend to mar expensive fishing lines are avoided, the thin fishing line easily following around the relatively thick body of the securing means l2, which is curved and smooth throughout and may be readily made so in molding or casting operations without re adjacent to the free end thereof, and a fishing quiring any finishing.

It will be perceived that the symmetrical float construction described lends itself to inexpensive molding as by plastic injection die machinery. Since the means 12" areexactdu'pi-icates of each other, a single two piece mold will form both as where the means I2 is made separately of,.the float body and. thereafter suitably secured orcemented thereto. v

Iclaim:

:1. .A fishing.v float comprising a body having a projecting. means thereon, said means including an eye and a member extending from the eye sothatthe opening thereoiis unobstructed, said eye beingadapted to receive a loop formed, in the fishing line with a closed end of the loop passed overand around the member to form a slip loop for anchoring the fioat to the line, said member serving to prevent said loop from passing back through said eye, said eye and extension being relatively rigidly related and constituting a one piece structure.

2. A fishing line float comprising a body, and a projecting stem alined with an axis of the body, said stem terminating in a head, and said stem having an eye intermediate of the ends of the stem, said eye being free to receive a loop of theline, as and for the purpose set forth.

3 A float for a fishing line including a body having alined oppositely extending stems connected thereto, each of said stems having an eye line having spaced loops passedv through their individual eyes and looped over the corresponding stems to thus slidably and frictionally secure the float to said line, said eyes being relatively free and unobstructed at the opposite faces of each for receiving the loops of the line at either of their faces.

4. A float for a fishing line, including a body having alined oppositely extending stems connected thereto, each of said stems having an eye adjacent to the free end thereof, projections spaced from the eyes and being in relatively fixed rigid relation thereto, and a fishing line having spaced. loops passing through the eyes and looped over the projections.

' HERBERT C. HAAG. 

